Nissenbaum, former WSJ reporter, joining Houston Landing

Dion Nissenbaum

The Houston Landing has hired former Wall Street Journal staffer Dion Nissenbaum as a reporter.

He will start Oct. 7.

Nissenbaum worked for The Journal in several high-profile roles, stationed in Brussels, Beirut, Istanbul, Kabul and Jerusalem. He has served as a bureau chief, a Middle East correspondent, a war correspondent and a senior correspondent.

He’s covered national security, the Pentagon, and counterterrorism policy.

Earlier in his career, Nissenbaum served as a state capitol reporter for the San Jose Mercury News in Sacramento, producing reporting that contributed to the forced resignation of state officials, changes in California laws and calls for special investigations of former Gov. Gray Davis.

He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International reporting in 2022 and in 2017, and received the James K. Batten Excellence Award in 2003, among many other awards. He published “A Street Divided: Stories from Jerusalem’s Alley of God” in 2015.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.